Gleam.
Başlık:
Gleam.
Yazar:
Broom, Sarah.
ISBN:
9781775585602
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (64 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Holding the line -- If I could land -- Tides -- Vigil -- One story and the other -- Disorder in the night -- Breath -- Introduction (belated) -- Because -- Astral -- The skeleton and the wave -- The skeleton dances under the stars -- Creature -- Tender -- Anchor -- Meditation on dying -- Of Necessity -- Wind -- The Bony Crowd Whispered Thinly -- River come gently -- The fire -- Little Black Stick Figure -- Small -- Undiluted -- Roses so close to the sea -- You are my harbour -- Birdsong -- Those are pearls -- Healer -- Defrost the dog -- Couplets -- On not being very Zen about it all -- About me and that moon -- Sleepers -- This city -- Cohen -- Gleam -- Both -- About the Author -- More from the Author.
Özet:
In these 40 powerful new poems, Sarah Broom explores the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. Broom's forte is in encapsulating, expressing, and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor, and in Gleam, her poems bring together heightened emotion, a robust sense of the physical body, and an external landscape in controlled, sinewy language. In the title poem, she charts a radiotherapy session in both physical and metaphoric terms: "there are avenues of light / and now there is a wide and open terrain, my brain / is a vast, hilly country." This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force and will open out painful, rewarding vistas for its readers.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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